Beth

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“The point wasn’t to escape the bad. She was so very grateful her mother had taught her this long ago. But to survive the bad and to see the best, one always had to find the joy in simply being alive. There was a terrible beauty to this life if one could but see it,”
― Eva Devon, The Earl's Absolutely Merry Match

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“as ordinary as we might be, we can, if we choose, take the harder road, walk forth bravely under the indifferent stars. We can hazard the ravages of chance. We can choose to endure what seems unendurable, and thereby open up the possibility of prevailing. We can awaken to the world as it is, and, seeing it with eyes wide open, we can nevertheless embrace hope rather than despair. When all is said and done, I think the story tells us that hope is the hero’s domain, not the fool’s.”
― Daniel James Brown, The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party